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I’m very impressed that Admin is learning to use technology!
Skyping is pretty cool (as long as there are no technical difficulties). Just remember to comb your hair, get dressed, and no nose-picking, as your audience can see you.

Lightning bolts for me tomorrow….I wonder if I can pick up any radio waves by now. 🙂

Watched Desert Flower last night, from Netflix. True story about Waris Dirie who walked out of Somalia at age 13(in the late 70s), to avoid an arranged marriage, ended up in London and eventually became a top international model. The serious part of her story was that she became a spokesperson against a form of violence against women, which we will not get into here. After watching the movie, I see why it received a R rating. Pretty graphic and shocking, to say the least.

B&M: Yep, more bolts tomorrow. The procedure doesn’t hurt. You are given a muscle relaxant, and are put under general anesthesia. It’s kind of like taking a fifteen minute nap, and you wake up with no recollection as to what’s been done to you. Once in a while my body feels a little sore (the ECT induces a seizure), and my teeth hurt, because during the seizure you are clenching your teeth, and I usually have a bit of a headache, but it’s nothing that two Tylenol can’t fix. ECT now is nothing like it how it was depicted in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” or the movie “Snake Pit.”

Masquers, if you can get to MSN’s home page, the link can be found under their entertainment news section
I’ll explain: The dog belonged to a very minor celebrity type woman. Her two small dogs went out to pee and one was injured by the hawk and is still at the vet, and the other dog is just plain gone.

Siber-H: Is this the same story Kirby was talking about last night? Gulp. Very scary stuff. When my brother, sister and I were small pups a owl made a late night appearance to the dog run. His nefarious intentions were thwarted by our pop, who luckily happened to be in the vicinity. Chicken wire over the dog run took care of any future problems.
Members of the Raptor family are quite dangerous for small animals, which are considered their prey. I remember seeing a up close video of a owl flying into camera range. Not the wise old owl of fable, but a fierce predator.

Thanks for that link. Barb doesn’t worry about me since I am not small prey, but she did feel really bad when she unknowlingly set that hen up for a hawk’s meal. She had her and the baby chicks in a 8 x 8 dog kennel, and had a dog crate in there that she locked them into at night. Imagine her shock when she checked them at noon, and there wasn’t much left of the hen, and both babies were mia. After that she had chicken wire put over the top, and never had anoter problem.

When the chickens are out in their large grass area, the roosters always alert to danger – they have one sound for airbrone danger, and a different one for ground predators. They are not known for their brillance tho, so they will alert for low flying airplanes. Better safe than sorry!

Sammy: There must be a solution. You simply cannot be stuck inside the house all the time! Any chance of a covered dog run in your future? We still like Tupper & Gilly’s umbrella solution for your walks. A light coat of mail also might do the trick (grasping at straws here)
Barb&Magpie: The chicken wire worked great here also, but it was mainly used on the ends of the kennel where I made my Great Escapes. Not to say I didn’t somehow always find a way…a loose board and…what can I say? Heh, heh…the phrase, smarter than the average Bear comes to mind.

Rose: Belle Starr packed her sparkly pink backpack with only the necessities—dress collar, chapstick, a dog blanket from the race to tuck around you and one for Masquers although she was worried that it isn’t a special Kat-dog blanket, Swedish fish, honey for your hair because she didn’t like the ‘product’ you had in your hair last time and Luna. There was a lot of mumbling going on along the lines of, “Hope Masquers is ready to go,” “…shouldn’t have left her in the feat place,” “still don’t understand what is meant by ‘kat.’ I will have to look it up.”

A few winters ago, AJ was on a run. As he was out on the trail a raven started flying above the team and followed him back to the kennel. The next mornin we had a murder of ravens. We never had ravens around before that winter. Later, when Patsy Anne was a brand new mama, a very daring raven poked his head into the new mama’s house where was caring for her brood. When I arrived home I found the large chunks of wha remained of the raven in he puppy pen and black feathers everywhere. It was a few weeks before the ravens returned, but they don’t bother Patsy Anne. I think she sent a clear message that day.

I haven’t been getting on the computer often as Mom is busy using it a lot these days. I got a big surprise on Monday when I had snow to play in again. Weird – we had summer weather a month ago! Did you guys get snow Monday?

I’m mad at Mom ’cause she doesn’t play outside with me for long – she says that it’s too cold but she wouldn’t be cold if she’d put her jacket on. GGRRR! She doesn’t like the rain, either. I admit that I don’t like rain and I always point it out to her when it starts. Oh! I don’t know why I go inside when it gets wet. It just seems like the right thing to do.

Bella: The term “a murder of…..” takes on a whole new meaning in that story of Patsy Anne. Never mess around with a mother, bear or otherwise.
Tell Belle Starr my motto is: “Have Knapsack Will Travel”. I can be ready at the flick of a tail.

Three cheers for Patsy Anne!! I have always wanted to get a Raven. When mom and I go for a walk in the desert the stupid Ravens just stand there as we walk by and, of course, I am on a leash and the dang birds know it.

Have we heard much from Wookie since he was found with a bottle of Cahors next to his ‘legal briefs’ in his briefcase yesterday?

Patsy Anne is a sweet, timid girl but that raven crossed a line. Her father, Fargo my main lead dog and the alpha of the kennel went fang to fang with a wolf a few years back. We were certain that was the end of his racing career. He would not be denied. Later that season, he lead AJ to a first place finish in a 300 mile qualifier.

Dan will be leaving the hospital tomorrow (hopefully) to go to the Rehab facility. He will be there for some time. Not sure how long. He will be doing PT and having his meds balanced. He has started a new medication that is actually used for all his symptoms. Most people only used it for one or two of those symptoms, but Dan has them all!

I had to tell OTAS that Dan will not be able to make it to the wedding. OTAS thought that is the way it was going to be. He’s sort of okay about it. Have to figure out how to do a Skype of the wedding.

Mom just discovered a book that she knows the rest of you must have read, “The Art of Racing in the Rain”. She just can’t put it down! She got it at a book fair last weekend when a friend said that it was her very favorite book.

Barb and Maggie – we are in the real minority. We have never even heard of Racing in the Rain

Hi everyone – been kind of crazy busy here. Not only does Mama have two shows coming up, and the Bear to finish, and a gala wedding to attend- our Dad came down with the stomach bug the other day. Now, we are not saying he is a sissy, but according to him,no one in the history of the world has ever been as sick as he was, or needed as much care as he did. ( and this despite the fact that Mama had the same bug the other day)

Rebecca!…snort!….You need to start planning you advertising campaign for the Spring Boutique…sniff!….You can’t just open it one day and expect tons of customers to flock to it, unless they are Plunderer, Shoppers Extraordinaire

Sam, Hamlet and YSAS are like brothers. Blood one minute and jokes the next!
YSAS did say he had to put more blood on the tee shirt for the play. Who knows what they’ll come up with this time.

B.Stover, YSAS did a huge paper on The Scottish Play. His idea was that no matter what culture the play was able to resonate with the people of the land. He compared English, Zulu, Japanese and then an American movie called “Scotland, PA”. He had seen the RSC’s “Macbeth” and “uMabatha” in England. Both excellent productions. I can’t remember the name of the Japanese movie. And “Scotland, PA” was great. It had Christopher Walken in it. Whew! Netflix has it on DVD. Anyhoo, he did a great job on the paper.

Time for bed. The snoring down here is putting me to sleep and the passing of Newf gas is making me pass out.

Hmmm!…To Pee Or Not To Pee, that is the question…snort!…She doth protest too much if Beau (heh) does not make it outside…sniff!…But she never promises us anything…grunt!…We take it all for granted…wuffle!

Stover!…Whatever you do, do not watch the little short advertisement type things they have out there…snort!…They give away the whole surprise of the stories…grunt!…Especially the second story. Thats the best one we’ve watched so far…wheeze!

When the musher is away the pug will play! We’re goin crazy here! We are selling everything that isn’t nailed day. Snort! We are wheeling and dealing at Rio’s-Retail-blowout-I-want-to-go-out-out-out-now-now-now…wheeze!…sale!

Rio: I think sneeze cake is on the menu for tomorrow. I got a glimpse of the upcoming menu when I passed by the kitchens:

Tomorrow is sneezecake.
Saturday is How did I end up in here brûlée.
Sunday is a special treat of Oh, now I remember brownie delight.
Monday starts the week with Has Anyone Heard How Our Legal Defense is Progresing parfait.
Tuesday looked like Fancy Meeting You Here, Wookie cookie crumble.

That is all I saw I was distracted by Barb getting processed. She put up a fight when the orange nail polish was revealed.